I have been wont to assure my friends, cheerily, in order to help them past middle-years birthday-blues, that sixty-one feels very much like sixty. I have said this both to my male as well as to my female friends. The word appears to have gotten about...that I am indispensible to those in tremulous anticipation of next-birthdays...for a few months back I was approached by the people at Life-Style Lift Infomercials and asked if I'd be the company's first male before/after model. 

     Not one to stand in the way of science or gender equity, of course I agreed. (Also, the money is very good.) 

      Here I am before my Life-Style Lift:

      Here I am after my Life-Style Lift:

      "Fifteen  Minutes & A Scalpel to a Whole A New You!"